All the cars are looking pretty the same, and the MCL60 it’s a little conservative to my eyes. From the pictures it seems that Alpha Tauri, Williams and even more Alfa Romeo have gone a little further with the concept.
That’s no necessarily bad.
Main thing is to not have a nasty gremlin like the brake situation during testing last year… If everything in the car works as expected from the first lap, that would be already a big win… Been able to focus on development instead of problem solving is what was really missing last season (at least during the better part of the first half).Emag wrote: ↑13 Feb 2023, 20:19Stella has already commented that there has been a particular weak area of last years car which was very difficult to address. They are not 100% satisfied with the launch spec because of this.
This mystery weakness will be addressed with updates in the upcoming months as they finally found a way to go around it.
I believe the mystery weakness is either the weak frontend (including chronic understeer) or the weak traction.
Let's hope the car starts out strong. With updates in the pipeline that should give the team a good confidence boost.
Emag wrote: ↑13 Feb 2023, 20:19Stella has already commented that there has been a particular weak area of last years car which was very difficult to address. They are not 100% satisfied with the launch spec because of this.
This mystery weakness will be addressed with updates in the upcoming months as they finally found a way to go around it.
I believe the mystery weakness is either the weak frontend (including chronic understeer) or the weak traction.
Let's hope the car starts out strong. With updates in the pipeline that should give the team a good confidence boost.
What's the engine got to do with the shape of the sidepod? It's clearly a RB homage with some subtle Alpine/Ferrari hints with the scalloped upper ridge.
Idk I think the shrink wrap on the back of the sidepods is very Merc-esque. The front half of the sidepods are RBR and the top is like Ferrari. Need better pictures though
The rear shrink wrap was there on the RB too. The overall shape of the sidepod and packaging is extremely similar to the RB18.
I don't think he's necessarily talking about addressing a weakness, more of a direction they could have taken for more performance, but realised it late, which should now be addressed with upgrades. At least that's what I understood from it. Anyways, quote is below.f1rules wrote: ↑13 Feb 2023, 20:40a interview from today or where did he say that?
Looks like the others, the williams looks maybe a bit more agressive but we all know it never bring them anything, lets hope its a good step, one worry, if they indeed made the front sus more aggressive due to aero, i hope thats not the case, id prefer a healthy mechanical layout, but lets see, its very meeh like the others, but offcourse everyone would copy rb so
Emag wrote: ↑13 Feb 2023, 20:19Stella has already commented that there has been a particular weak area of last years car which was very difficult to address. They are not 100% satisfied with the launch spec because of this.
This mystery weakness will be addressed with updates in the upcoming months as they finally found a way to go around it.
I believe the mystery weakness is either the weak frontend (including chronic understeer) or the weak traction.
Let's hope the car starts out strong. With updates in the pipeline that should give the team a good confidence boost.
Thank you for that comparison shot, SmallSoldier.SmallSoldier wrote: ↑13 Feb 2023, 20:45Good comparison showing the amount of undercut and the flow from the tunnel entrance:
https://i.imgur.com/ifsRm9Y.jpg
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